Noisy Aircraft Revenue and Credit Act

Summary

Noisy Aircraft Revenue and Credit Act -- Replaces, for a five-year period, two percent of the respective excise taxes on air transportation of persons (presently eight percent), and property (presently five percent) with an additional, separately stated two percent tax on consumers pertaining to the retrofitting and replacement of noisy aircraft equipment. Suspends the $3 tax on international facilities for the same period, replacing it with a tax for noisy aircraft that is $2 if less than $100 is paid by the consumer, $10 if more than $100 is spent. Allows airliners which replace or remodel noisy aircraft in order to conform to Federal Aviation Administration noise regulations to recover some of their costs through refunds or credits of the new excise taxes. Allows refunds or credits ranging from 50 to 90 percent of the cost of retrofit property, 75 percent of the cost of replacement engines, and 25 or 40 percent of the cost of replacement aircraft, depending on which noise standards are met by the new aircraft. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to issue regulations on these matters. Defines the types of equipment and standards qualifying for the credits and refunds of this Act.

This text is taken from the official record. PoliticalRepo does not editorialize.

Timeline

No timeline events have been ingested for this record yet.

Votes

No vote records are attached yet.

Versions

No version snapshots stored. Document URLs remain at the source.

Documents

2 official files

• Reported to House with amendment(s)

  summary · EN · 24 April 1978

  Open at official source

• Introduced in House

  summary · EN · 11 April 1978

  Open at official source

Sponsors

No sponsors or actors listed by the source.

Related records

No cross-record relationships stored yet.